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		<title>Making Passwords for An Easier Life&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/microsoft/windows/making-passwords-for-an-easier-life</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[unix]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heals of Companies Make VPN Easy For Yourselves&#8230;&#8230;. comes another gem from the school of &#8216;kinda obvious if you think about it&#8217; ! If you use the UK pound &#8216;£&#8217; symbol in any passwords, at some point it will bite you in the ass when you are on an American keyboard (especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apache Header Byte Range DoS Exploit&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/security/apache-header-byte-range-dos-exploit</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Grrrrr, looks like there&#8217;s an unpatched exploit in *all* versions of Apache web server. Is to do with using header byte ranges which allow http responses to be broken into smaller chunks before sending. You can read about them here and here. There are multiple workarounds for mitigating the issue that can be read here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recursive Grep For Solaris&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/recursive-grep-for-solaris</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/recursive-grep-for-solaris#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bash]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Solaris doesn&#8217;t seem to have a &#8216;-r&#8217; switch to perform recursive string searches (at least not on version 10 on Intel x86 anyway) :o( The following works as a workaround/substitution find -type f &#124; xargs grep -i &#160; That is all&#8230;&#8230;.. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>QNAP Data Recovery Hell&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/storage/qnap-data-recovery-hell</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/storage/qnap-data-recovery-hell#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 14:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s never goes easily does it ?! Somehow, I had managed to almost fill my 1TB drives in my x2 bay QNAP NAS. Owing to my being paranoid about my data, I choose to mirror a pair of x1TB drives for 1TB total storage, rather the create a 2TB spanned volume using both of them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Host Multiple WordPress Instances Using a Single Hosting Account</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/apache/host-multiple-wordpress-instances-using-a-single-hosting-account</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/apache/host-multiple-wordpress-instances-using-a-single-hosting-account#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[apache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rewrite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wordpress]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Running multiple WordPress instances is easy when you have multiple databases and directories at your disposal, but often you only get x1 database and x1 hosting folder when you sign up with a web provider. Here&#8217;s how to run multiple instances of WordPress from their own urls out of subfolders in your personal hosting space. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remove Tilde From URL On OS X Personal Web Sites</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/apple/remove-tilde-from-url-on-os-x-personal-web-sites</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/apple/remove-tilde-from-url-on-os-x-personal-web-sites#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been helping a friend with some web site stuff. Nothing too complex, just some php that results in some html and css. Continually ftp&#8217;ing the files back and forth to my ISP hosted account was becoming labour intensive, so I figured I would just use the apache web server built into OS X [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correct ESX NTP Time Periodically</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/vmware/correct-esx-ntp-time-periodically</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/vmware/correct-esx-ntp-time-periodically#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 12:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just had an odd one. Everytime I rebooted any one of my Windows VM&#8217;s, when it came back up the clock would be out by a varying amount. VM&#8217;s on the same physical host would be out by identical amounts, but Vm&#8217;s on different physical hosts would be out by different amounts. The physical VM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change Ubuntu Default &#8216;ls&#8217; Command Alias&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/change-ubuntu-default-ls-command-alias</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/change-ubuntu-default-ls-command-alias#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Change Default Ubuntu Aliases By default Ubuntu (plus several others) change the &#8216;ls&#8217; command to be an alias that colour codes the output. While I&#8217;m sure this is great for many people, I don&#8217;t like it :o( I like back background, lime green text, directories indicated with a &#8216;/&#8217; character at the end, and hidden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enable The &#8216;root&#8217; User Account In Ubuntu&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/enable-the-root-user-account-in-ubuntu</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/enable-the-root-user-account-in-ubuntu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[openvnp]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like consistency. It makes things easier, and me faster and more accurate/efficient/amazing to watch etc. etc. As Ubuntu is the 4th Linux distro I have ever had to work with (first being OpenBSD, the FreeBSD, then Red Hat) I was getting a little annoyed that after an install &#8216;su&#8217; did not work as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Nagios Web Interface Read-Only&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/make-nagios-web-interface-read-only</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/make-nagios-web-interface-read-only#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though we&#8217;re not a massive company (less than 50 butts on seats) we do have quite a bit of kit in an environment that is growing ever more complex. To help we use Nagios to monitor key systems and services and to alert us via email when issues arise (and hopefully we can correct [...]]]></description>
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